How to Render Composite layers for timeline video creation
Easy Peasy - I was trying to use Render Image to render my animation sequence, not render animation.  After doing another project I realized I need to render animation either as a series of images (preferred) or as a single video output.  I was thinking that Render Animation was not for the image sequence but for the movie output.  Now I see that is part of the output format for Render Animation. ;-)